nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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Chosen as best documentary by audiences at both the<br />
Sundance and Berlin International <strong>Film</strong> Festivals, Waste<br />
Land is a touching, edgy, essential documentary that<br />
encompasses art, the environment, social issues, and<br />
stories of ordinary lives. New York artist Vik Muniz,<br />
renowned for his photographs of portraits made from<br />
an assortment of materials—his most famous being<br />
the ”sugar children”—returns to his native Brazil to<br />
undertake a new project in the Jardim Gramacho, the<br />
world’s largest landfill, outside of Rio de Janeiro. Director<br />
Lucy Walker follows Muniz and captures an intimate story<br />
as he discovers an eclectic and impoverished population<br />
of garbage pickers, ‘catadores’, who spend their days<br />
collecting recyclables from the dump. He hires some of<br />
Waste land<br />
Audience Award for Best World Cinema Documentary, Sponsored by:<br />
Sundance <strong>Film</strong> Festival 20<strong>10</strong>, Audience Award for Best<br />
<strong>Film</strong>, Panorama, Berlin <strong>Film</strong> Festival 20<strong>10</strong>, Audience<br />
Award, Full Frame Documentary <strong>Film</strong> Festival 20<strong>10</strong>,<br />
Target Documentary <strong>Film</strong>maker Award, Dallas <strong>Film</strong><br />
Festival 20<strong>10</strong>, Golden Space Needle Award, Seattle<br />
International <strong>Film</strong> Festival 20<strong>10</strong>, Audience Award,<br />
Provincetown <strong>Film</strong> Festival 20<strong>10</strong><br />
Thurs Nov 11 6:00 PM-7:45 PM Deb Appleby<br />
sAT Nov 13 12:30 PM-2:15 PM Coast Press/<strong>Beach</strong>comber/<br />
delmarvanow!com<br />
them for his newest photographic project— creating their images on<br />
a huge scale from bits of recycled materials and then photographing<br />
them from above. Walker uses time-lapse shots to depict the amazing<br />
garbage “mosaics” as they’re created by the catadores. What unfolds is<br />
a story of dignity and remarkable creativity, told through the individuals<br />
whose lives are transformed by art and their own personal contributions<br />
in the making of it. Walker’s film balances hope and reality, and in this<br />
case, at least, one man’s trash ends up being many others’ treasure.<br />
[dir. lucy walker, 2009, brazil/uK, video, 98 mins. in portuguese and<br />
English with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.arthousefilmsonline.com/20<strong>10</strong>/04/waste-land.html
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